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Srinivas built Perplexity AI into a $9 billion search engine processing over 100 million monthly queries — the first AI-native product to mount a credible, venture-backed challenge to Google's decades-long grip on how the world finds information.
Aravind Srinivas is Co-Founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, the AI-powered answer engine.
He co-founded Perplexity in 2022 with Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, and Andy Konwinski; the company handles over 100 million monthly queries and has been valued at over $9 billion, with investors including Jeff Bezos and Nvidia. Before Perplexity, Srinivas was a research scientist at OpenAI and DeepMind and earned a PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley.
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